Menton me and Japan, the unfinished business

 

Here are a few unfinished notes from the last few days posts involving Menton, Japan, and my hat. And what these notes really come down to are pictures from the small stories I told you that were either redundant to the tale of the day, ever so slightly surplus, or simply not yet finished.

I won't go into too much detail about how I am making most of the pictures I show here now, but it involves a lot of editing, generating, layering, erasing, and drawing on, into, and from my original photographs. It can take some time to finish each one, and that doesn't always coincide with what I'm talking about here. 

And so then, with that as your explanation, here is another picture of me in the hat I bought in Japan:

And this is an old photo from the area very close to where I bought that hat, in the museum district of Kyoto. Nearby and running through, there are some very pretty and broad canals regularly populated by Japanese Herons. As this was one of the nicer heron pictures I took in Japan, I have shown some version of it here before, but it comes now refreshed as halfway to a drawing.

And finally, in my mixed review of a local trip to the city of Menton, the pictures were mainly of the citrus floats in the center of town. This one is from the old city of Menton, typically just barely protected from a noisy road, and yet exceptionally lovely and peaceful. At the end of it one can find one's way into an astonishing little alley complete with a nice ceramicist, and then carrying on, take that narrow alley down to a thriving square of charming restaurants, which will then dump you out on, yes, a busy road and a parking lot.